Scott v. State

How courts have described this case

Verbatim parenthetical descriptions written by other courts when citing this decision. Ranked by citation-network relevance.

• trial court erred by not instructing on voluntary manslaughter where victim taunted defendant about molesting the defendant’s niece just before the shooting
• trial court erred by not instructing on voluntary manslaughter where there was evidence that the victim taunted the defendant about molesting the defendant’s niece just before the shooting

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

8 cases in this archive cite this case.

• Hamm v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2014-03-17· cited 62×
• Davis v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2021-11-23· cited 17×
• Merritt v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2020-11-12· cited 10×
• Allen v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2024-05-29· cited 5×
• Mobley v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2022-06-22· cited 3×
• Cooper v. the State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2017-06-02· cited 1×
• Tucker Hamlette v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2020-02-14
• Henderson v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2025-08-12

Cites

13 cases in this archive are cited by this case.

• Jackson v. Virginia
  Supreme Court· 1979-10-01· cited 79,490×
• Malcolm v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1993-09-20· cited 1,049×
• Henderson v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1975-09-02· cited 106×
• Strickland v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1987-06-24· cited 52×
• Ross v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2005-05-23· cited 51×
• Brooks v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1982-06-29· cited 45×
• Reynolds v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2009-02-23· cited 41×
• Washington v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1982-07-08· cited 39×
• Banks v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1971-05-06· cited 33×
• Brown v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1999-02-08· cited 27×
• Todd v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2001-07-16· cited 26×
• Glidewell v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2006-04-27· cited 25×
• Banks v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 1987-09-30· cited 6×